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Svetina, Dubravka; Liaw, Yuan-Ling; Rutkowski, Leslie; Rutkowski, David – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2019
This study investigates the effect of several design and administration choices on item exposure and person/item parameter recovery under a multistage test (MST) design. In a simulation study, we examine whether number-correct (NC) or item response theory (IRT) methods are differentially effective at routing students to the correct next stage(s)…
Descriptors: Measurement, Item Analysis, Test Construction, Item Response Theory
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Moyer, Eric L.; Galindo, Jennifer L.; Dodd, Barbara G. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2012
Managing test specifications--both multiple nonstatistical constraints and flexibly defined constraints--has become an important part of designing item selection procedures for computerized adaptive tests (CATs) in achievement testing. This study compared the effectiveness of three procedures: constrained CAT, flexible modified constrained CAT,…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Test Items, Item Analysis